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As an long-time mostly-vegetarian, I know a thing or two about vegetarian feasting in general and the Vegetarian Thanksgiving in particular.

The rules below are mine. What are your ideas or family traditions for feeding the vegetarians on Thanksgiving? Please share your own insights—or feel free to request advice!—in the comments. Continue reading →

After nearly a year of daily posts, usually dashed off in the moments before midnight, I took a day off yesterday. It was for a good reason, one that many of you will remember or understand: after a few sleepless nights in a row, I fell asleep snuggling my one-year-old at 7 p.m. A rare indulgence. Delicious.

And so today I really should be giving you some menu suggestions for the week, which I skipped over yesterday, but I can’t focus on that right now (see below). Because Allison told me to make this salad tonight, and it was so good that I have to tell you. Right now. Even though it’s hours past my new 7:00 bedtime.Continue reading →

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What’s Halloween like in your neck of the woods? We here at Emmy Cooks are bracing ourselves for a sugar-fueled whirlwind of a day, complete with daytime and nighttime trick or treating (in the rain), hot apple cider, and an unreasonable number of plastic spider rings that will repeatedly turn up in the washing machine for months to come.

And oh, woah, what do you do about the candy? In past years I’ve simply spirited it away after the one night of debauchery (and by “spirited it away,” of course I mean “I ate all the good stuff”). But my big girls are older and wiser now, and it seems like the right time to teach them something meaningful about making good food choices and moderation. So, yeah, any tips you have on that front would be welcome!

Also welcome will be returning to real food after tomorrow’s sugar overload. The recipes below were some of my favorites this month.

Have you entered the Food in Jars Cookbook giveaway yet? Do it now. It’s not just for canning enthusiasts, although it might turn you into one.

Welcome to Emmy Cooks! You can see more of my favorite recent recipes by clicking the “My Favorite Recipes” category on the sidebar (here are June, July, and August). If you like what you see here, you can sign up on the sidebar to receive a daily recipe by email, add the RSS feed to your own reader, or follow Emmy Cooks on Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest.

At the end of each month, J and I separately choose our top five Emmy Cooks recipes of the month and then we compare notes. Usually a bit of discussion goes into the final selection, and occasionally even dissent (like when we couldn’t agree on the best chocolate cookies of the month). But this month, we picked the exact same five. Here you go.

Hello, friends! Once again, thanks so much for reading and cooking along this month. If you like what you see here, please remember to sign up on the sidebar to receive a daily recipe by email! You can also follow Emmy Cooks on Facebook or Twitter or Pinterest. And can I ask you a favor? If you are enjoying what you read here, will you share this website with some of your friends who might like it too?

With so many recipes flying through the Emmy Cooks kitchen and across the pages of this blog, I like to take a moment at the end of each month to choose and highlight some of my favorites. (You can see more of my favorite recent recipes by clicking the “My Favorite Recipes” category on the sidebar; here are April, May, and June.)

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